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You Wonder if You Can Write Something

Susan Browne Rattle
Poet Susan Browne depicts the despair of our times, a sense of hopelessness, the feeling that the future will be even worse than these dismal days.

The Janes | Trailer

A group of unlikely outlaws defied the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it. “The Janes” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies in the pre-Roe v. Wade era.

Rep. Liz Cheney's January 6 Hearing Presentation

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) presented a roadmap for the indictment of Donald Trump, including video testimony from former Trump officials ex-Attorney General Bill Barr and ex-Senior Advisor Ivanka Trump.

Can Ms. Marvel Change the Image of Islam in America?

Juan Cole Informed Comment
In the first episode of this tv series, the 16-year-old Pakistani-American superhero despairs of being allowed to go to a comic book convention, saying, “Anyway, it is not as if the brown girls are the ones who save the world.” Obviously, the point of this series is to disprove this defeatist point of view.

Jan 6 Was an Attempted Coup D’Etat

Cline Center’s Coup D’état Project
Using the Cline Center’s Coup D’état Project definitions, we classify the storming of the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 as an attempted coup d’état: an organized, illegal attempt to intervene in the presidential transition by displacing the power of the Congress to certify the election.